Not getting fired from your job for your sexual orientation. Not having the state government specifically bar local governments from implementing non-discrimination laws. These are things that matter to people.

“The lady is not Travis’s sidepiece, she’s his fiancée”

Sorta? I can’t speak to deals between the IMF and chaebols. However the domestic government did enact some reforms post-AFC. These were mostly focused on accounting standards and corporate governance...even if equity participation was still relatively low (founding families still held power). The post-AFC landscape…

At least its better now than it was before Asian Financial Crisis. There were some reforms that opened that economy to smaller players in its wake. Now if they can break the banks out of the chaebols, everything else would take care of itself. Regardless the huge investments in education should create an…

That’s what you took from this story?

Historically the chaebols competed directly with one another above all other considerations. So Hyundai was more concerned with making a better car than Daewoo rather than Toyota or Volkswagen. Meaning, the quality was shit.

After a season of pestilence in Baltimore, we get to play the AFC and NFC East, along with Jacksonville and Oakland in the 3 spots...plus the Browns. Thank you scheduling overlords!

Clearly he’s teaching his son the “right way” to learn about transcendent athletes like Bo Jackson. Total fucking ignorance.

Yes, I can see. LaRoche went on a mission to rescue people from a profession that operates in a legal and moral gray area in Thailand.

If you draw an income from writing, you cannot publish this sort of shit.

2. Haole here. I was visiting a friend on Oahu years ago. I drove over to the leeward coast and looked at Makaha for about 20 minutes on a small day. There was one guy out there picking off small ones on the inside bowl so I went out. Mind you, I would not have gone out if there was a crowd. I had a great day and a…

A personal favorite was on Maui a few years ago where I saw a pick-up with a cap on the back. There was no top closure to the cap...just a Confederate flag. The truck had anti-mainland and pro-Hawaiian independence bumper stickers all over it. I can at least comprehend the independence sentiment. But claiming common…

Alternate headline...non-native driver disappointed that a city with few natives driving has bad traffic flow. Sub... also disappointed that traffic patterns designed to help get drivers out of the District appear to work as designed.

Srsly? Its a city-district with virtually no natives driving. Why would you expect anything but bad drivers?

When can I expect a review of the French Laundry from someone who doesn’t like wine?

Yup. I started mine during the recession. I mailed my documents to the Sec State’s office. Six weeks passed and nothing had showed up in the mail, so I called to check. They told me they were short staffed and that it would be SEVERAL MORE MONTHS until they got to my documents. Or...I could drive to Sacramento and pay…

But the Swedes are capitalists with a social safety net.

Where is the comment in which he blamed his players for a not great season despite having every recruiting advantage over the entire nation.

What if I told you there was only one fish that belongs in sausage?

I didn’t think I would have to go this far down the comments to find bagna cauda.